Seychelles

TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Highways: 302 kilometers in 1994, of which 202
hard
surfaced.

Ports: Mahé.

Airports: Eight of fourteen have hard-surfaced
runways.

Telecommunications: Good, small system using
mainly
satellite communication to outside world and direct radio
communications with adjacent islands and African coastal
countries; some 13,000 telephones in 1994; two amplitude
modulation (AM) stations, no frequency modulation (FM)
station;
two television stations; one Indian Ocean International
Telecommunications Satellite Corporation (Intelsat) earth
station. In 1992 Seychellois had some 38,000 radios and
10,900
television sets.